Irish Rail by the rules at Hazelhatch, September 2015.

It was rare glorious sunny day back in September 2015. Irish Rail had a full complement of trains on the move. Catching clean 071 class diesel 077 with the second IWT Liner was a bonus.

I exposed these photos along the Dublin-Cork line at Hazelhatch (about ten miles southwest of Dublin). Special thanks to John Cleary, who advised me on the day’s program, provided road-based transport and suggested some angles.

Down Irish Rail InterCity Railcar at Hazelhatch. FujiFilm X-T1 photo.

Photos by the rules:

Sunny day; tick!

Sun at least 30 degrees above the horizon and over right shoulder and positioned for evenly-lit three-quarter view; tick!

2 thoughts on “Irish Rail by the rules at Hazelhatch, September 2015.”

The tracks beyond the old station building in the photos are the ‘up mains’ (lines signaled for traffic toward Dublin. The tracks in the immediate foreground (used by trains pictured) are the down roads (for traffic heading away from Dublin). Irish Rail quad-tracked its line from Hazelhatch to Cherry Orchard in the late 2000s, converting the traditional directional double-track line into a four track main line with both ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ up and down roads (running tracks).

At some point I might run some ‘then and now comparison views’ at this location to show how the setting has evolved.

Brian Solomon

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